Verse 1. THE OAK
Ackroyd & Harvey and Zena Edwards
Night falls in Mayow Park. A tree hovers above a pit.
“Powerful performance and poetry welcome this twenty-year old field grown oak to join a community of magnificent trees in Lewisham’s oldest municipal park.”
This pilot project was Ackroyd & Harvey and Zena Edwards first artistic collaboration and explored the potential of local creative initiatives to make climate issues more accessible and facilitate real environmental improvements.
Three poets joined with three groups of young people to explore the symbiotic relationship between people and trees. Through workshops, the participants created poems and spoken word pieces to give voice to their poetic imaginings f the connection between human beings, trees and the people who live in the intensity of an urban environment like London.
Radicle the primary root to appear when a seed germinates
Radical Going to the root or origin; far-reaching change or action
Featuring:
Action For Refugees In Lewisham
Forest Hill School
Young Lewisham Project
Poets:
LiLi K. Bright
Mark ‘Mr T’ ThompsonArji Manuelpillai
Arji Manuelpillai
Sound composition: Isa Suarez
Project coordinator: Shabnam Shabazi
Production manager: Steve Wald
